Deleting the audio from the video using Video Studio didn't work

[jmsrickland]

Last night I was using Video Studio 10 to edit a video file. The video had several clips in it and the first two clips had a distrubing humming sound that I didn't want. Since there was no other audio like voice or music I figured I could just remove the audio from those two clips.

I right clicked on the clips and one of the options was to seperate the audio from the video. After clicking on the option the audio was placed in the audio tract below the video tract in the timeline. Then I right clicked on each of the audio streams and there is an option to delete it from the timeline, so I did. The audio was deleted. I then previewed the entire video from the beginning and sure enough there was absolute silence through the first two clips and then the audio was there from the third clip to the end of the video. This was exactly what I wanted so I went ahead and burned the video to a DVD disc. I took the DVD disc over to my TV top standalone DVD player and played the video. The audio was there through the first two clips.

What happened? Did I do something wrong or was what I did not really removing the audio?

[harley2ride]

After you made the edits and deleted the audio, did you SAVE the project before burning. I know with VS7, you have to save the project in order for the changes to be in effect.

[jmsrickland]

After you made the edits and deleted the audio, did you SAVE the project before burning. I know with VS7, you have to save the project in order for the changes to be in effect.

You know, now that you mentioned it I believe I saved the project after I burned the disc.

OK, thanks. Next time I use VS to do that I'll save the project first.

BTW: Can VS be used to edit audio? Here is an example.

I have another video that has a low humming sound all through out the video. I would like to be able to just filter out the humming sound and leave the rest of the audio alone.

[edDV]

After you made the edits and deleted the audio, did you SAVE the project before burning. I know with VS7, you have to save the project in order for the changes to be in effect.

You know, now that you mentioned it I believe I saved the project after I burned the disc.

OK, thanks. Next time I use VS to do that I'll save the project first.

BTW: Can VS be used to edit audio? Here is an example.

I have another video that has a low humming sound all through out the video. I would like to be able to just filter out the humming sound and leave the rest of the audio alone.

That is tough without knowing the frequency range of the hum. If it is 50/60hz power hum, then there are filters that can notch that out. If it is hum generated by camcorder motor noise, that is broad spectrum and difficult to remove.

With VS, you can try their limited "remove noise" filter that shows up when you click on the separated audio track. Better to export and work on the file with Audacity (free) or Sound Forge Studio ($) or Sound Forge ($$$), etc. Each has forums where you can seek help.

[jmsrickland]

I already have Adobe® Audition® 2.0 which I can do what I want but it is audio only so I was just wondering if VS has similar editing capabilities that way I can edit the audio and see and relate the audio to the video wheras in Audition you pretty much have to know what the audio is in relation to the video. Audition is one super cool audio editing application (formerly Cool Edit which I used years back).

[harley2ride]

I know that vs7 has some audio editing abilities. I played with them a little bit just to see what was available, but I've never used it. I used Vegas 5 for that kind of stuff.

[edDV]

Sound Forge allows you to see the video while working on the audio tracks and maintain timecode reference. I thought Audition had some sort of video preview track.

[jmsrickland]

WOW! That Sound Forge looks really cool. I'll give it a try.

[jmsrickland]

I thought Audition had some sort of video preview track.

I don't know if it does or not. I am fairly new to it but I haven't see anything that allows me to view the video. I'll look into it further.